The Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation is in the market for a supercomputer to solve massive computational fluid simulations, and has gone as far as trading power redundancy for even more computing power.

Throughout human history new inventions have been intended to lighten workloads and make life easier. While machinery developments such as the steam engine have facilitated travel and industry – not to...

Negotiations between Google and French media companies seem to have ground to a halt, while a government enquiry has came up with a fresh idea: tax big online companies based on the user data they collect.